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Pioneering disability rights advocate and leader in Disabled in Action, New York ; Center for Independent Living, Berkeley
; World Institute on Disability ; and the US Department of Education, 1960s-2000 /
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Title:
Pioneering disability rights advocate and leader in Disabled in Action, New York ; Center for Independent Living, Berkeley ; World Institute on Disability ; and the US Department of Education, 1960s-2000Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Heumann, Judith E., 1947-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Brown, Susan T., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Landes, David L. (David Lamont), 1941-2008, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Young, Jonathan, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.Abstract:
Childhood and family in New York; onset of polio; use of civil rights model in disability activism; establishment of the Disabled
Students Program at Long Island University, 1968-69; denial of teacher certification and lawsuit; teaching at Public School
219; formation of Disabled in Action, 1970; Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded; disrupting Julie Nixon Eisenhower's
sppech, 1973; interactions with the Center for Independent Living; aide to Senator Harrison Williams, 1974-1975; suing National
Airlines, 1974; deputy director of Center for Independent Living; 1975-82; White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals,
1977; reflections on Center for Independent Living staff; establishing the World Institute on Disability, 1983; Assistant
Secretary to the Department of Education, 1993-2001.
Date:
1998 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Women with disabilities -- United States -- Interviews
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Services for -- United States
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
Femmes handicapées -- États-Unis -- Entretiens
Poliomyélite -- Patients -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Services -- États-Unis
Personnes handicapées -- Droits -- États-Unis
People with disabilities -- Civil rights
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc
People with disabilities -- Services for
Poliomyelitis -- Patients
Women with disabilities
United States
Disabled in Action.
Center for Independent Living.
World Institute on Disability.
Center for Independent Living.
World Institute on Disability.
White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals (1977 : Washington, D.C.)
White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals.
Heumann, Judith E -- 1947- -- Interviews
Note:
Judith Heumann ; interviews conducted by Susan Brown, David Landes, and Jonathan Young in 1998-2001.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Interview transcript and audio interviews also available online.
Interviews also available on audiocassette (Phonotape 4043 C).
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Interviews.Oral histories.
Physical Description:
1 volume (xiv, 466 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
33 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.